I have that card working sucessfully on my Dell c600. I have the pcmcia drivers in the kernel disabled and using the pcmcia-cs package.
The one gotcha is you can not have SMP enabled in the kernel, if you do the machine will lockup when the 'cardmgr' tries to init the card. HTH, Steve On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 15:45, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Hello > > The internal network card on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 8100) has finally > given up and as a result I've purchased the following 3com pcmcia card. > > http://www.3com.com/prod/en_UK_EMEA/detail.jsp?tab=features&sku=3CXFE575CT > > This will be my first encounter with pcmcia under Linux as everything on > both my machines so far has been built in. And from what I can tell this > card is supported in Linux. > > 1) Has anyone got this card and if so what driver kernel or otherwise have > you used to get it to work? > 2) Should pcmcia and cardbus support be enabled in the kernel if external > drivers are going to be utilised e.g. http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/? > 3) Any other considerations of precautions necessary with pcmcia in > general or simply with this card? > > Much appreciated > Dhruba Bandopadhyay > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
